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Curonian colonisation
Colonisation efforts of the Duchy of Courland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Curonian colonisation refers to the colonisation efforts of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (today part of Latvia). Small, but wealthy, the Duchy took a modest part in the European colonization settlement attempts of West Africa and the Caribbean.
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